PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 72 55
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 9 7 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.85% 0.81% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.92% 2.87% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 25
10th Percentile - £51,068 £51,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,426 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -13.33% +40.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,375 £85,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.25% -27.27% -

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 244 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.42% 28.27% 36.91%
Number of salaries quoted 112 161 399
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £69,063 £82,751 £73,818
90th Percentile £94,000 £100,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,069 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.83% +5.51% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 4 (44.44%) SaaS
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 3 (33.33%) Power Automate
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) IAM Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
1 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Application Security
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (33.33%) Employee Productivity
2 3 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
2 3 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
1 3 (33.33%) CREST Certified
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki